if your cables are not distressed somehow, a change of cartridge will probably make a bigger difference in sound. I've had an oracle rewired, and though it made me 'feel' like i had updated it somehow, the sonics didn't really change for the better...until i changed the cartridge.
Upgrading the wires of my turntable
I have a Kyocera turntable and I want to upgrade the wiring. Right now it has stock power and interconnects. The ICs doesn't use a DIN. The connections are soldered to a board. I have three one meter ICs here at home I'd like to choose from: Homegrown Silver Lace; Audio Metalurgy GA-O; or Pure Silver Sound Quartets. And since they'll be soldered and not just plugged in, I'd like to use an educated guess to pick the right cable the first time. Any opinions on what might suite a turntable best? It's a Shure M97x cartridge to a Tube Audio Design TAD-150 pre amp.
Also, I'll want to upgrade the tone arm cabling and the power cable. And don't know how to evaluate the choices out there. So any opinions on that would also be great. But I know there's probably more in the forum archives I should read up on for this part.
Also, I'll want to upgrade the tone arm cabling and the power cable. And don't know how to evaluate the choices out there. So any opinions on that would also be great. But I know there's probably more in the forum archives I should read up on for this part.
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